diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 90c6b95..eda8ceb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "cocotools_io"
 description = "Advanced image input and output: EXR, 32 bit support and more"
-version = "0.4.2"
+version = "0.5.0"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 dependencies = ["torch>=1.10.0", "numpy>=1.21.0", "colour-science>=0.4.2", "Pillow>=9.0.0", "opencv-python>=4.5.0", "tifffile", "OpenImageIO>=2.4.13.0", "rich>=10.0.0"]